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  • Trial: Daily pill nearly doubled survival time for people with advanced pancreatic cancer

    Source: Times of Israel [Jerusalem]

    “A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers report, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer. ‘While not curing the cancer, it is a very large step forward,’ says Dr. Zev Wainberg, of the University of California, Los Angeles, who helped lead the study. The drug is called daraxonrasib and it blocks a mutated protein that fuels tumor growth in more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases — a target that had eluded treatment for decades. The daily pills nearly doubled survival time, with fewer severe side effects, in a study that randomly assigned the experimental drug or more chemotherapy to 500 patients whose metastatic, or spreading, cancer had quit responding to prior treatment. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago.” (05/31/26)

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/daily-pill-nearly-doubled-survival-time-for-people-with-advanced-pancreatic-cancer-trial-shows/

  • Israel: Netanyahu vows to expand occupation of Lebanon after deepest incursion in 26 years

    Source: NBC News

    “Israeli forces have captured a strategic site in Lebanon across the Litani River, marking Israel’s deepest incursion into the country in 26 years. The capture of Beaufort Ridge, the site of a medieval castle, comes after days of intense fighting in southern Lebanon, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying Sunday the seizure marks a ‘dramatic change’ in Israeli strategy. … ‘My instruction is to deepen and expand our grip on the places that were under Hezbollah’s control,’ he added. ‘The occupation of Beaufort is a dramatic stage and a dramatic change in the policy that we are leading.'” (05/31/26)

    https://www.nbcnews.com/world/lebanon/israel-captures-key-lebanon-site-crossing-litani-river-rcna347732

  • WHO confirms five patients have recovered from rare type of Ebola that has killed over 200 in the Congo

    Source: New York Post

    “Five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola, the head of the World Health Organization said Sunday during a visit to eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak. ‘Four people will be discharged today and there was one that was discharged the day before yesterday,’ WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the opening of a new Ebola treatment center in Bunia, the provinical capital of Ituri. ‘Of course, we’re still working on vaccines and treatments but that doesn’t mean that people cannot recover from Ebola,’ he added. … The health organization said latest official figures showed 906 suspected cases and 223 suspected deaths. Neighboring Uganda has confirmed nine cases and one death, the Ugandan Health Ministry said Friday.” (05/31/26)

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/31/world-news/who-confirms-5-patients-have-recovered-from-rare-type-of-ebola-that-has-killed-over-200-in-the-congo/

  • Trump says he’ll appear himself after performers drop out of “Great American State Fair”

    Source: Reuters

    “U.S. President Donald Trump will headline an event commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary on the National Mall next ​month, organizers said on Saturday, after several musical performers scheduled to appear in ‌the celebration canceled, citing concerns about its association with him. The concerts were planned as the opening ceremony of the Great American State Fair, a 16-day event running from June 25 to July ​10, 2026. … the musical ​lineup has been hit by a series of cancellations. On Friday, Bret Michaels, the lead ​singer of the rock band Poison, became the fifth performer to withdraw from the concerts, saying that the event was not the nonpartisan celebration that he thought it would be. … ‘The fact is that I am, according to many, ​the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World,’ Trump wrote.” (05/30/26)

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-considers-dropping-concerts-us-capital-after-artists-drop-out-2026-05-30/

  • ME: Platner’s wife “angry, disappointed” her past disclosures of his extramarital sexting were made public

    Source: NBC News

    “The wife of Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, said she is ‘really angry’ about reports that she had previously told her husband’s campaign he had exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women. ‘It makes me really angry, disappointed,’ Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, said in a direct-to-camera video released by Platner’s campaign on Saturday night. ‘And I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on.’ Gertner’s remarks came after The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that Gertner had told Platner’s campaign about the sexually explicit texts last year, near the start of his Senate bid.” (05/31/26)

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/graham-platner-wife-amy-gertner-disclosed-extramarital-sexting-rcna347737

  • WA: Eleven confirmed dead in chemical accident

    Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]

    “The death toll from a chemical tank rupture in the U.S. state of Washington climbed to 11 ‌as crews recovered the bodies of all nine missing people, authorities said on Saturday. Two fatalities had been ​confirmed after the tank ​containing ‘white liquor’ — a chemical solution of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide used ​in making paper pulp — imploded ⁠at a ⁠Nippon Dynawave Packaging ‌facility on Tuesday. … The ruptured tank contained about 3.4 million litres of white liquor, and ​tests confirmed that contamination entered the nearby Columbia River, ⁠officials have said, although no ‘negative health impacts’ ⁠had been detected on air quality or ⁠the ⁠city of ​Longview’s drinking water.” (05/31/26)

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/washington-state-chemical-accident-9.7218298

  • Secretly filmed UFO doc reveals insider video as officials release new alien records

    Source: Fox News

    “A new, secretly filmed documentary profiling one of the most prominent names in the UFO disclosure movement has crash-landed at the height of the federal government’s release of unclassified documents pertaining to otherworldly encounters. ‘Sleeping Dog,’ directed by Michael Lazovsky, follows prominent investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell throughout his decades-long efforts regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) transparency. Corbell has served as a key figure in the disclosure movement by platforming UAP whistleblowers and facilitating Congressional hearings to bring attention to the topic, with the documentary focusing primarily on his efforts to implore federal officials to release classified information regarding UFOs to the American public. … The documentary — which was filmed in secret over the span of several years — also reveals previously unreleased footage from Corbell’s investigations and includes interviews from several prominent names in the movement, including astronaut Edgar Mitchell, David Grusch and George Knapp.” (05/31/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/secretly-filmed-ufo-doc-reveals-insider-video-officials-release-new-alien-records-something-imminent

  • Judge launches inquiry into Trump-IRS settlement that led to “anti-weaponization” fund

    Source: Politico

    “A federal judge is demanding answers to allegations that President Donald Trump defrauded her court by filing a lawsuit against the IRS as a pretext to reach a settlement that resulted in a $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund to make payouts to his political allies. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams launched the inquiry Friday, after closing the lawsuit on her docket last week. The Miami-based Obama appointee cited a request by 35 former federal judges who urged her to reopen the case to determine whether Trump’s effort amounted to ‘serious misconduct’ and an abuse of the court system.” (05/30/26)

    https://www.politico.eu/article/judge-launches-inquiry-into-trump-irs-settlement-that-led-to-anti-weaponization-fund/

  • NJ: Newark mayor imposes curfew after protesters clash with violent gang members

    Source: SFGate

    “The mayor of Newark imposed a curfew early Sunday around an immigration [concentration camp] in New Jersey after a series of intense clashes between protestors and [gang members]. The curfew around Delaney Hall will be in place between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. until further notice, Mayor Ras Baraka said in a statement. The move came after another night of standoffs between [gang members] and demonstrators at the facility, as protestors could be seen in photographs and videos fighting over barricades as [gang members] used riot shields to push them back. A video posted on social media showed [gang members] on horseback marching into crowds attempting to break up groups of protestors. The demonstrations at Delaney Hall began earlier this month after advocates said detainees inside launched a hunger strike over poor living conditions at the 1,000-bed facility, the latest hotbed of opposition over the federal government’s immigration crackdown.” (05/31/26)

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/newark-mayor-imposes-curfew-around-delaney-hall-22284790.php

  • Meteor explodes over New England, causes massive “double boom” that shakes local homes

    Source: New York Post

    “A meteor exploded over New England Saturday afternoon, creating a daytime fireball and a massive ‘double boom’ that shook local homes. The American Meteor Society reported the space rock puncture the atmosphere around 2:30 p.m. before disintegrating over the ocean near eastern Massachusetts. … Several people filed reports with the US Geological Survey registered the shaking with the National Earthquake Information Center, according to an agency spokesperson. … The phenomenon was observed from Delaware to Montreal.” (05/30/26)

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/us-news/double-boom-meteor-fireball-shakes-homes-spooks-new-england-residents/

  • Judge: Trump’s name must be removed from Kennedy Center

    Source: Axios

    “President Trump’s name must be removed from the Kennedy Center, according to an order signed Friday by a D.C. district judge. The ruling is a hit to the president’s effort to renovate the performing arts venue, which was scheduled to close later this year so work could begin. Friday’s order also halted the closure. ‘The Court has concluded that the Board overstepped its statutory bounds by unilaterally renaming the Kennedy Center after President Trump,’ U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper wrote in a 94-page ruling.” (05/29/26)

    https://archive.is/UuYzJ

  • France: Hundreds arrested and dozens of police injured after Champions League riots

    Source: BBC News [UK state media]

    “A total of 219 people have been injured in clashes between football fans and police across France after Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) won the Champions League final against Arsenal. Eight were in a serious condition, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said. Thousands of officers were deployed to curb unrest that disrupted bus, train and rail services in the capital, Paris. Fifty-seven of them were injured. Nuñez said 780 people had been arrested over the violence — with more than 450 in custody. A person was found dead after an accident on Paris’s ring road, which rioters tried to block overnight. Some 6,000 police have been mobilised for Sunday’s victory parade at the site of the Eiffel Tower.” (05/31/26)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r2ejg1w9xo

  • FL: Bitcoin ATM operator files for bankruptcy

    Source: WFLA News

    “For months, Better Call Behnken has investigated criminals using Bitcoin ATMs to trick elderly Floridians out of money. Now, new state legislation aimed at protecting consumers has been passed, and one of the largest Bitcoin ATM operators in North America has filed for bankruptcy. Florida lawmakers recently approved a bill designed to curb fraud involving cryptocurrency kiosks. The law is expected to take effect in January and would limit deposits for new users to $2,000 per day, with higher thresholds of $10,000 per day for existing customers. Lawmakers say the goal is to slow the rapid movement of cash in fraudulent schemes. Now, Bitcoin Depot, the largest Bitcoin ATM operator in North America, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and says it plans to wind down its network of more than 9,000 machines.” 905/29/26)

    https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/better-call-behnken/bitcoin-atm-operator-files-for-bankruptcy-as-florida-tightens-rules-to-avoid-fraud/

  • Occupied Ireland: Pastor convicted for preaching near hospital files appeal, warns of free speech precedent

    Source: Fox News

    “A retired pastor who was convicted and fined for preaching a gospel sermon near a hospital in [the British-occupied part of] Ireland is appealing his conviction. On May 7, a judge found Clive Johnston, 78, breached Northern Ireland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act when he preached a sermon on John 3:16 near Coleraine’s Causeway Hospital in July 2024. The buffer zone law prohibits ‘influencing,’ ‘preventing or impeding access,’ or ‘causing harassment, alarm or distress’ to a protected person within 100 meters (about 328 feet) of facilities where abortions are performed. Johnston announced Wednesday he filed an appeal challenging his conviction. He warned that convicting a person for publicly preaching a well-known Bible passage sets a troubling precedent for religious liberty and free speech.” (05/31/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/pastor-convicted-preaching-john-316-near-hospital-files-appeal-warns-free-speech-precedent

  • Venezuela: President-elect, thwarted by Maduro rigging, calls for elections

    Source: ABC News

    “Venezuela’s former opposition candidate Edmundo González called on Saturday for presidential elections as the five-month mark of interim President Delcy Rodríguez’s administration approaches in the wake of the U.S. military intervention that ousted Nicolás Maduro in early January. The 76-year-old former diplomat was recognized by several countries as the legitimate winner of the July 2024 elections amid a post-election crisis and street protests as the opposition alleged fraud. Electoral records that showed González’s victory over Maduro were deemed credible by international observers.” (05/30/26)

    https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/venezuelas-opposition-candidate-edmundo-gonzlez-calls-presidential-elections-133455086

  • CA: Governor’s race poll shows Becerra growing lead with days to go

    Source: SFGate

    “The latest poll of the California governor’s race just days before the primary election shows Democrat Xavier Becerra widening his late lead. A sprawling survey published Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California asked nearly 40 questions on California and national issues and gauged voters’ preferences in the governor’s race. Becerra, who has climbed in recent polls, is the leading candidate with 23% support among likely voters in PPIC’s poll, despite heavy scrutiny from his opponents in the last gubernatorial debate. … Just behind Becerra in the recent poll is Republican and former Fox News host Steve Hilton, with 20% support. Hilton has consistently fared well in the polls and received an endorsement from President Donald Trump. … While Becerra and Hilton appear to be the leaders ahead of the primary, billionaire and Democratic candidate Tom Steyer is next behind the front-runners in the PPIC poll with 15% support.” (05/29/26)

    https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/california-governor-race-2026-22281527.php


  • We Must End the TSA “License to Loot”

    Source: Independent Institute
    by Jim Bovard

    “For more than a decade, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts. If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, TSA agents can fleece you. More than 10,000 travelers have been stripped of their money by TSA agents since 2014. But the feds almost never bother filing criminal charges against the victims of asset forfeiture. TSA considers itself generous when it ‘permits the passenger to continue on to their destination’ — after taking away their money.” (05/29/26)

    https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/we-must-end-the-tsa-license-to-loot

  • AI fiction is the new fast food

    Source: Washington Post
    by Megan McArdle

    “If the proliferation of AI writing is a problem, it’s not because it’s terrible slop unfit for human consumption; it’s a problem because in some specific ways, it’s too good. It is the literary equivalent of fast food: convenient, cheap, hyper-consistent and relentlessly optimized to tickle our pleasure centers. Sure, AI produces some crazy metaphors and weird hallucinations, because the models have all of our text and none of our context. On the other hand, AI is really good at optimizing for readability, both stylistically and structurally. … as with fast food, what people want now isn’t necessarily good for them in the long run.” (05/31/26)

    https://archive.is/Oe1zp

  • Tennessee Celebrates the New-Fangled “Nuclear Family”

    Source: Garrison Center
    by Thomas L Knapp

    “The nostalgia for a 1950s ‘mom, dad, two kids, Chevy four-door, well-manicured lawn around a tidy cottage’ way of life is not nostalgia for ‘the old days,’ let alone for the days shortly after ‘the creation of the world.’ It’s nostalgia for post-World-War-2 Pasadena, California.” (05/31/26)

    https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20637

  • Trump Loves Accusing Critics of Treason. US Law Makes That Charge Hard To Prove — for Good Reason.

    Source: Reason
    by Jacob Sullum

    “The president’s habitual attempts to criminalize dissent hark back to tyrants of yore.” (05/30/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/05/30/trump-loves-accusing-critics-of-treason-u-s-law-makes-that-charge-hard-to-prove-for-good-reason/

  • A Nation of Suspects

    Source: Antiwar.com
    by Andrew P Napolitano

    “Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion and without warrants.” (05/29/26)

    https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/05/28/a-nation-of-suspects

  • Ryanair, Easyjet, and just say no to a Financial Transactions Tax

    Source: Adam Smith Institute
    by Tim Worstall

    “Those with long memories will recall the campaign to have a Financial Transactions Tax. Something we were vehemently opposed to no doubt because we’re neoliberals or something. The idea was to have a miserly — say, 0.1%, or 0.05%, that sort of amount — tax on every financial transaction. The claim was that this would not affect ‘real’ trade and would only reduce the amount of speculative froth in the marketplace. Which would, according to the proposers, be good. Because, well, speculative froth and all that. Just capitalists playing with money, see? Except speculative froth does have a point …” (05/31/26)

    https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/ryanair-easyjet-and-just-say-no-to-a-financial-transactions-tax

  • When is enough enough for the Iran war hawks?

    Source: The Hill
    by Douglas MacKinnon

    “Many of the those pushing for war over the last few decades were politicians, news editors and pundits thousands of miles from the battlefield. These ‘hawks’ continued their lives of luxury and safety within their bubbles of entitlement while young American troops became the disposable pawns to be moved about the surface of a macabre board game. … as President Trump seeks to find a lasting solution to end the war with Iran, their harsh voices can be heard screeching out their disapproval. Just the very thought of an extended ceasefire is enough to trigger some of the hawks. When is enough enough for the Iran war hawks? Naturally, they will say when Iran is no longer a threat to the U.S. or Israel. But what does ‘no longer a threat’ really mean? And what does the now ubiquitous phrase ‘finish the job’ really mean with respect to Iran?” (05/30/26)

    https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5900029-iran-war-hawks-debate/

  • Nothing Should Be Nationalized

    Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
    by Laurence M Vance

    “There is one main problem with President Trump’s call to nationalize elections: the Constitution, which decentralizes the election process with a minor role for Congress. Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution states that ‘the Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.’ There is no provision for the president to have anything to do with elections through executive action. … Another problem with President Trump’s call to nationalize elections is that it is based on something that is largely imaginary.” (05/29/26)

    https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/nothing-should-be-nationalized/

  • Of Course We’re Fighting on the Lawn

    Source: The Dispatch
    by Kevin D Williamson

    “It does not matter whether you live in a trailer park or a brick ranch house or something more grand and getting grander, it is all the same: Tornado bait is tornado bait. When the Trump administration announced that it was staging a UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House, I knew what I was seeing. It is as familiar to me as the taste of canned Ranch Style Beans on cornbread …. I know my people. My people know what they like. And they will have what they like even if it harelips the pope — especially if it harelips the pope. It took 250 years, but you got here. All the way down here. From Greatest Generation to White Trash Nation in the space of one lifetime.” (05/29/26)

    https://thedispatch.com/article/ufc-fight-white-house-american-decline/

  • Patents: The Damage of Coerced Intellectual Monopoly

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Jorge Besada

    “One of the reasons why we fall for the erroneous idea that patents are good for society is because we greatly overestimate the importance of the specific individual or company making a discovery while being unaware of how the market process — via its various mechanisms like prices, the profit motive, and economic competition — plays a key role in innovation.” (05/29/26)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/patents-damage-coerced-intellectual-monopoly

  • The New Religion of AI Accelerationism

    Source: CounterPunch
    by David S D’Amato

    “Today’s technology sector does not represent the principles of anything like actual free-market competition; intensively subsidized by the public and deeply tied to the federal government, the major tech companies are a state-capital oligopoly that have benefited enormously from a variety of special subsidies and perks unavailable to ordinary companies and citizens. When we account for direct federal grants and subsidies, infrastructure support, and hardware manufacturing, public subsidies and allocations for AI have reached well into the hundreds of billions of dollars.” (05/29/26)

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/29/the-new-religion-of-ai-accelerationism/

  • The Bottle of Freedom

    Source: Foundation for Economic Education
    by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes

    “When the Portuguese government decided to add a 10-cent deposit to the price of every plastic bottle under 3 liters (101 fl oz), a small family business in central Portugal did the math and launched a 3.1-liter (105 fl oz) bottle.” (05/29/26)

    https://fee.org/articles/the-bottle-of-freedom/

  • You can’t hide your lying ICE: The covered-up killing of Ruben Ray Martinez

    Source: The Watch
    by Radley Balko

    “It took nearly a year for the public to learn that a DHS officer killed a Latino man and U.S. citizen — and that federal officers lied about how it happened.” (05/29/26)

    https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/you-cant-hide-your-lying-ice-the-432

  • Liberalism’s Uneasy Relationship with Democracy

    Source: Liberalism.org
    by Ilya Somin

    “Liberalism — defined as the political philosophy that prioritizes individual freedom and human happiness — has always had an equivocal relationship with democracy. Democratic governments generally feature much greater liberty and happiness than other types of regimes. Liberals should resist the temptation to embrace authoritarianism. But there are also multiple ways in which democracy can often threaten liberty and human welfare. These dangers include the tyranny of the majority and widespread voter ignorance. Democracy can also be a threat to its own perpetuation, by bringing to power authoritarian political movements. These are all longstanding problems. But recent events demonstrate their continuing — and in some cases growing — significance.” (05/29/26)

    https://www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism-s-uneasy-relationship-with-democracy

  • The Bitter Lessons of Sugar Control in World War I

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Daniel J Smith

    “Herbert Hoover’s wartime sugar program generated shortages that led to expanding rationing systems and increasingly centralized control over the allocation of sugar.” (05/29/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-bitter-lessons-of-sugar-control-in-world-war-i/

  • Age Limits for Federal Office Are Wildly Popular, But Washington’s Gerontocracy Won’t Hear of it

    Source: The UnPopulist
    by Andy Craig

    “America’s political gerontocracy is a genuine problem. It fuels dysfunction, distrust, and concrete negative policy consequences. We can’t sweep it under the rug any longer: too many of our high officeholders, including a disproportionate number of Democrats, are simply too old. It’s not unacceptable ageism to say so; it’s the cold, hard reality. And it’s time to confront it head on: we need a mandatory retirement age for politicians.” (05/29/26)

    https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/age-limits-for-federal-office-are

  • Is the FDA’s War on Vaping Coming to an End?

    Source: Independent Institute
    by Raymond J March

    “Makary’s resignation may finally close the book on the FDA’s disastrous campaign.” (05/29/26)

    https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/29/fda-war-vaping/

  • Beyond Babel

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Spencer A Klavan

    “f you had told me at the turn of this century that the two most hotly anticipated cultural events of summer 2026 would be a screen adaptation of Homer and a papal encyclical, I’d have blessed your heart and called you crazy. Yet here we are, and the subjects everyone told me were ‘useless’ in school — philosophy, literature, dead languages — are informing several ferocious disputes over the fate of our civilization. The future looks bright for the humanities!” (05/29/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/forum/beyond-babel/

  • Should an Industry-Friendly Rider in the Farm Bill Override Over 1,000 State Laws?

    Source: Brownstone Institute
    by Meryl Nass

    “The battle over the Save Our Bacon Act is not merely a dispute about pork production or animal welfare standards. It is a constitutional and political struggle over whether states retain meaningful authority to govern agricultural commerce within their own borders — or whether that authority will increasingly be consolidated in Washington at the urging of large corporate interests. At the center of the debate lies a broader question that has shaped American federalism since the founding of the republic: who decides how communities govern themselves?” (05/29/26)

    https://brownstone.org/articles/should-an-industry-friendly-rider-in-the-farm-bill-override-over-1000-state-laws/

  • The Dicey Details of the Federal Government’s New School Choice Tax Credit Program

    Source: Show-Me Institute
    by Cory Koedel

    “During his State of the State address in January, Governor Mike Kehoe indicated Missouri is opting into the federal government’s new school choice tax credit program. The program resembles Missouri’s MOScholars program. Taxpayers can receive a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit for donations up to $1,700 annually to a scholarship-granting organization, or SGO, in Missouri. The SGO then distributes scholarships to families in Missouri seeking alternatives to their residentially assigned public schools. For many families, the scholarships will be used to pay private school tuition. But the potential is broader.” (05/29/26)

    https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/the-dicey-details-of-the-federal-governments-new-school-choice-tax-credit-program/

  • The Most Important Question Facing Humanity

    Source: Free Association
    by Sheldon Richman

    “In [Auberon] Herbert’s day, as in ours, people took for granted that the state (‘the people’) may properly exercise power over peaceful others (through, say, a parliament) for a variety of purposes. So he asked, ‘Have men any right to this power?’ And again, ‘If they have it, do they possess it for all matters? If not for all matters, for what matters? and in this last case how are we to tell what these matters are?'” (05/29/26)

    https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-the-great-question-facing-humanity